On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 07:19:24PM +0530, Abhishek Verma wrote:
Hi,
I am sure that there would be very few people running RIP in their networks, but since the IETF RIP mailing list is dead, and also because its more of an operational question, the Nanog list felt most appropriate to me for the following post.
i guess i'm among the very few then.
Why would you, as an operator, recieve RIPv2 Request messages? The only reason that comes to my mind is when a remote RIPv2 router has just come up. That time its going to multicast this message on all its interfaces configured to run RIP. This is the *only* reason that comes to my mind.
thats the normal way
However, there is text in the RFC 2453 that states that RIP can use this message to request specific networks also. It also states that such a request can only be made by a diagonistic software and cannot be used for routing. My doubt is, how can a diagnostic software, use the services of RIP for doing that?
kind of depends on the implementation of RIP you are using.
I assume (please correct me if i am wrong) that the RIP requests are only then, used for requesting the entire routing tables, and nothing else. The 'diagnostics' story sounds too far fetched to me!
ripv2 allows for requesting specific prefixes. not too far fetched.
Thanks, Abhishek V.
P.S. I tried googling but nothing came up.
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